-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Barber [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 10:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: maven goals and what they do
Hi Val,
Most of the time you just need
mvn clean install
sometimes if you can't be bothered with the test suite
mvn clean install -DskipTests
is also useful.
And if you just want to run tests you can do,
mvn clean test
Maven is a dependency management tool the actual compilation(much like make
is) is passed off to javac, and as such .m2 is where all the OODT(and any other
maven projects) dependencies are stored so it can build it again and reuse the
old
dependencies if they've not changed as thats quicker than downloading them all
again.
The other goals are largely called by other processes or used for building the
old
website etc, so you can ignore them.
OODT is also a multimodule project so if you call maven from the top level
you'll
build all the modules, if you are only interested in a specific module you can
also
call it from within that modules directory and it will build that specific
module.
Hope that helps.
Tom
On 06/11/14 15:15, Mallder, Valerie wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Where is the best place I should look to find out what each of the
maven "goals" actually do? I am new to 'maven' but very familiar with
'make'. I am used to using "make install" to build my application and
'install' it into the place where my users will run it from. But, it
looks like "mvn install" does something complete different. I have
noticed it is installing things in an .m2 folder in my home directory.
(What the heck is this .m2 folder and why do I need it?)
So I thought I would just ask the general question where do I go to find out
what
all of the goals listed below actually do?
Thanks,
Val
validate,
initialize,
generate-sources,
process-sources,
generate-resources,
process-resources,
compile,
process-classes,
generate-test-sources,
process-test-sources,
generate-test-resources,
process-test-resources,
test-compile,
process-test-classes,
test,
prepare-package,
package,
pre-integration-test,
integration-test,
post-integration-test,
verify,
install,
deploy,
pre-site,
site,
post-site,
site-deploy,
pre-clean,
clean,
post-clean.
Valerie A. Mallder
New Horizons Deputy Mission System Engineer The Johns Hopkins
University/Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd (MS 23-282), Laurel, MD 20723
240-228-7846 (Office) 410-504-2233 (Blackberry)
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